President Trump's bad run keeps getting worse
With mounting coronavirus concerns for his upcoming Tulsa rally, two major Supreme Court losses and his former national security adviser John Bolton’s book, President Trump has had a rough week.…
Juneteenth, ‘Atlanta’ and the challenges of allyship
America is reckoning with allyship. One way to parse the current political moment is via Donald Glover’s surreal and sophisticated FX dramedy “Atlanta.” In particular, Season 1’s penultimate episode explores…
Trump’s presidency is in a tailspin. His reelection may survive it.
Trump has endured one of the most disastrous political streaks of any modern commander-in-chief and appears to lack a coherent plan for righting his leaking ship, let alone for triumphing…
President Trump threatens protesters ahead of Tulsa rally
Writing on Twitter, Trump lumped together “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes” and said they would not be afforded what he’s decried as gentle treatment if they gather outside his…
Charles Booker Suddenly Has Progressives Excited About Kentucky
As recently as a month ago, Kentucky’s Democratic Senate primary was a sleepy affair. Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath had raised a metric ton of money, won the backing…
Jennifer McClellan Could Make History As Virginia’s First Black Female Governor
Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D) is jumping into the race for governor, saying the state is at a “critical crossroads right now about what direction we’re going to go.”…
Supreme Court Rules Trump Wrongly Ended DACA, Leaves Program In Place
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, will remain in place, keeping nearly 650,000 undocumented young people safe from deportation, thanks to a ruling on Thursday by the…
Nancy Pelosi To Remove Portraits Of Confederate House Speakers From U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ordered the immediate removal of portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous House Speakers who served in the Confederacy. “There…
What we learned from John Bolton’s eye-popping tale of working with Trump
Bolton described a conversation between the two world leaders at the June 2019 G-20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, where Trump told Xi that Midwestern farmers were key to his reelection…
Boy Scouts Of America Will Require Eagle Scouts To Earn New Diversity Badge
The Boy Scouts of America says it will require aspiring Eagle Scouts to earn a new “diversity and inclusion” merit badge before they can attain the organization’s highest rank. Similar…